Show 27 MINERS KillED I BY GAS EXPLOSION S By Press Pea to The Telegram BIRMINGHAM Ala Nov 4 Eighteen negroes and nine white men entombed in the Bessie mines of the Sheffield Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron company company com corn pany twenty miles west of here are believed to have lost loot their lives early today by an nn explosion said to have been caused by gas Rescue crews from government government and antI I state mine bureaus are at work trying I to e reach ch the men men- Two white men and three negroes escaped Injury by W workIng Ir their way through the debris which the blast caused i In the opening |